The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. It is named after Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971). The prize currently comes with a A$30,000 cash award. Winners and shortlists 2023 Adam Aitken – Revenants Pam Brown – Stasis Shuffle Kim Cheng Boey – The Singer and Other Poems Lisa Gorton – Miribilia Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar Marjon Mossammaparast – And to Ecstacy 2022 Winner: Dan Disney – accelerations & inertias Eunice Andrada – TAKE CARE Evelyn Araluen – Dropbear Eileen Chong – A Thousand Crimson Blooms John Kinsella – Supervivid Depastoralism Bella Li – Theory of Colours 2021 Winner: Ellen van Neerven – Throat Jordie Albiston – Element: The Atomic Weight & Radius of Love Rebecca Jessen – Ask Me About the Future Jill Jones – A History of What I’ll Become Jaya Savige – Change Machine 2020 Winner: Peter Boyle – Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness Joanne Burns – apparently Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition Lisa Gorton – Empirical Natalie Harkin – Archival-Poetics David Malouf – An Open Book 2019 Winner: Judith Bishop – Interval Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry Penelope Layland – Things I’ve Thought To Tell You Since I Saw You Last Philip Neilsen – Wildlife of Berlin Mark Reid – Blindside Chris Wallace-Crabbe – Rondo 2018 Winner: Bella Li – Argosy Adam Aitken – Archipelago Jordie Albiston – Euclid's dog: 100 algorithmic poems Rico Craig – Bone Ink Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng – Captive and Temporal Omar Sakr – These Wild Houses 2017 Winner: Peter Boyle – Ghostspeaking Paul Hetherington – Burnt Umber Jill Jones – Breaking the Days Antigone Kefala – Fragments John Kinsella – Firebreaks: Poems Ellen van Neerven – Comfort Foot 2016 Winner: Joanne Burns – brush Lionel Fogarty – Eelahroo (Long Ago), Nyah (Looking), Möbö-Möbö (Future) Sarah Holland-Batt – The Hazards Meredith Wattison – terra bravura Chloe Wilson – Not Fox Nor Axe Ouyang Yu – Fainting 2015 Winner: David Malouf – Earth Hour Michael Aiken – A Vicious Example Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems Anne Elvey – Kin Libby Hart – Wild John Mateer – Unbelievers, or The Moor 2014 Winner: Fiona Hile – Novelties, Hunter Justin Clemens – The Mundiad, Hunter Diane Fahey – The Stone Garden: poems